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This page contains documentation about the Complex Anarchism Symposium that took place in May 2025 in Brussels and ongoing projects which emerged from the symposium. If you are interested in the intersection between anarchism and complex systems and want to get in contact, we also list possibilities to get involved below.
The idea of the CAS (Complex Anarchism Symposium) emerged when some people interested in complex systems met at a cybernetics talk at the Anarchist Gathering in St. Imier in 2023. The following text has more details on the origins of the idea: How we organised the Complex Anarchism Symposium - by Evo
Complex Anarchism Symposium, 19-23 May 2025 in Brussels
This was the call to the symposium: ‣. It includes a list of possible topics.
The vision text Vision nicely defines the scope of the symposium and explains how anarchist theory and praxis can be improved by complex system thinking.
The Symposium had some light constraints like locations, a Program, organized food, and basic community agreements. Other things like roles and responsibilities, dynamic changes of the schedule were self-organized on the fly. You can find more on how the symposium was organized in this text How we organised the Complex Anarchism Symposium - by Evo.
‣ - a table of all the talks for which we collected recordings or slides.
Post-symposium documentation - recordings of most of the talks at the symposium, slides of some talks, photos of many workshop outcome posters, some sketches and textual notes